8.08.2013

Barbara Mertz is probably familiar to most of my blog readers (if there are any of you left after so long a span of silence) as Elizabeth Peters, the author of the Amelia Peabody series of Egyptological mystery novels set in the late 19th and early 20th Century. Her book Temples, Tombs, and Hieroglyphs was a big part of why going to the University of Chicago to study at the Oriental Institute was my dream from roughly age 8 onward.

I never had the opportunity to meet her but by all accounts she was a delightful, funny lady.